From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98scm=5Ffrom=5Flocale=5Fstring=E2=80=99?= and locale character encoding Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:35:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87fwm2fwag.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20110710.001131.2114114687665811411.pipping@lavabit.com> <4E1AFA72.2050803@gnu.org> <871uxud0s7.fsf@pobox.com> <4E1D95A0.60504@gnu.org> <87oc0yb8mh.fsf@pobox.com> <4E1DB59B.9070700@gnu.org> <87vcv5kzhk.fsf@pobox.com> <877h7gljlv.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <4E245CC5.4040505@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311068434 3070 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2011 09:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, bug-autogen@gnu.org, Elias Pipping To: Bruce Korb Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 19 11:40:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qj6mz-0007gM-DQ for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qj6my-0000J9-Dk for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qj6i9-0007p1-VC for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qj6i5-0005Ua-O7 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from solo.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.19]:39856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qj6hp-0005PZ-Hj; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from nixey (nat-eduroam-37.bordeaux.inria.fr [194.199.1.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: lcourtes) by smtp.fdn.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BFAC4429A; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:35:07 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 1 Thermidor an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <4E245CC5.4040505@gnu.org> (Bruce Korb's message of "Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:18:13 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 80.67.169.19 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5739 Archived-At: Hi Bruce, Bruce Korb skribis: > On 07/17/11 13:47, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> FWIW, I do understand the inconvenience and frustration reported here. >> >> But as Andy suggests, I think it should come as no surprise that >> =E2=80=98scm_from_locale_string=E2=80=99 returns a string from a locale-= encoded one. >> Guile 1.8 already documented things this way [0]. > > The issue is less about scm_from_locale_string than: [...] > * This is a behavioral change in a bug fix release. The kind of > change one might more readily anticipate in a 2.0.x to 2.1 transition. Wait, I was referring to the fact that scm_from_locale_string actually honors the current locale, which was introduced in the 1.8 =E2=86=92 2.0 transition along with Unicode support. Did I misunderstand the change you were referring to? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.